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The Crystal Fountain; 



Faith and Life. 



**And he shewed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal." 
"And he that believeth on me shall never thirst." 



Personal Records from the Note-Book 



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"Ye are come 
" Unto the citj' of the Living God, 
"To an innumerable company of angels ; 
"To the general assembly and church of the First-bom ; 
"To the spirits of just men made perfect ; 
"And unto Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant." 



T^ LiBRART 
OF COIVGRBSS 



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Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1876, by 

MRS. P. L . U P H A M , 
In the Omce of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 



CONTENTS. 



I. To THE Household of Faith, 5 

II. Public Testimony, 15 

III. Angel Messengers, 17 

IV. Unexpected Utterances, 18 

V. Prayer not Answered, 20 

VI. Continual Prayer, 22 

VII. Submission, 23 

VIII Manifestations OF THE Lord, .... 24 

IX. Light of Love, 26 

X. Purifying by Fire 27 

XI. The Inward Burning, .,28 

XII. The Angel Comforter, 29 

XIII. Bird Teaching, 30 

XIV. Prayer for Health 32 

XV. The Flowers, 33 

XVI. The Flower of the Desert, .... 34 

XVII. Silence of Self, 36 

XVIII. Unexpected Inte^rview, . . . . . 37 

XIX, Presence of an Angel, . . . . . » 39 

XX. Thoughts in Rhyme, 41 

XXI. Spiritual Scenery, . . . , . . •45 

XXII. Leaving the Prison, 47 

XXIII. A Day of Retribution, 48 

XXIV. Madame Guyon's Letters, 49 

XXV. God's Glory in his Saints, 51 

XXVL The True Church, 5» 

XXVII. Sin Exposed and CondemneO, .... 54 

XXVIII. An End to Sin, 56 

XXIX. The Spirit of Love, •57 

XXX. The Measurement of Love, .... 59 

XXXI Angel Help Physically, 60 

XXXII. Keeping Time with God, 62 

XXXI II. Ministry of the Christ-man, . . • • 63 

XXXIV. Heaven Within Us, 65 

XXXV. A Word in Season, ....... 66 



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CONTENTS. 



XXXVI. Death to Self, ...... 

XXXVII. Spirit Interview, 

XXXVIII. The War, 

XXXIX. The Multitude of Slain, .... 

XL. State Preparatory to Divine Teachings, 

XLI. Peace and Inspiration 

XLII. Madam Guvon's State, .... 

XLIIL Man the Temple of God, .... 

XLIV. Alone with God, 

XLV. Good Perverted to Evil, .... 

XLVI. On an Intermediate State, . * , . 

XLVII. Open Intercourse with the Spirit World, 

XLrVIII. Spiritual Influences not Compulsory, . 

XLIX. Results of Man's Spiritual Development, 

L. Hindrances and Helps, 

LI. Spirit Communications Tested, 

Lll. Nature and Quality of Spiritual Influence 

LIIL Conception of a Spiritual Body. 

LIV. How do Angels Talk with Man? 

LV. God as One, or Dual, . 

LVI. The Eternal Marriage, 

LVII. My Mother's Voice, . 

LVIII.' Supremacy of Love, 

LIX. Leaving Home, .... 

LX. Obedient Unto Death, . 

LXI. Physical Renewing, . 

LXII, Sin and Sickness, 

LXin. Christ in Me. . . . 

LXIV. Christ and Love, . 

LXV. Ocean Teaching, . . . ^ 

LXVI. The Calmer of the Storm, . 

LXVII. The Visible and the Invisible, 

LXVIII. Two Kinds of Mediumship, 

LXIX. The Perfect Revelation, 

LXX. More of God and Less of Self, 

LXXI. Death of my Husband, . • 

LXXIL Death to Self and Life in GoDj 

LXXIii. Note in Conclusion, . 



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I. 

To THE Household of Faith. 

Dear Reader: — The portion of Truth 
our Lord gives us, we share with others. Dis- 
tribution of the bread is a law of Christ's king- 
dom. And herein is made known to us the 
fellowship of the Spirit, the communion of 
saints, and the ministry of the angels. 

In December 1870, I was led to make ex- 
tracts from my note-book with the view of 
giving them to the church, in God's time. If 
I rightly understand the teachings of the 
Spirit and providence of God, this time has 
now come. And what I would naturally 
shrink from doing — ^ exposing to the public 
eye these private, personal experiences — I do 
cheerfully in the will of God, although involv- 



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ing, as it does a great deadness to all selfish 
considerations. My spirit craves the kind 
indulgence of the reader, in the perusal of 
these j)ages. 

I have been instructed in various ways ; 
sometimes by means of dreams and visions, or 
pictorial representations, to use a modern 
phrase, — in a manner not dissimilar to Bible 
Christians. If the lesson is but learned, it is 
of little consequence in what manner we are 
instructed, or whether our external senses 
are awake or asleep. I have been instructed 
in both of these ways. At times, the thoughts 
have come directly to my inner preception, 
the operations of my own mind being at rest 
from tlie usual way of meditations and rea- 
sonings, to receive necessarily, the inner voice, 
or utterance, silent, yet speaking within me. 
And this without any effort on my part, or 
any disturbance of my spirit, or any lack of 
self-control ; and yet without having any 
knowledge of these thoughts, until they were 
being written. 

These remarlvs have reference, particularly, 



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to the answers given me to questions arising 
in my mind regarding " Spiritual Agencies 
and influences," which were of great interest 
to me. My attention having been awakened to 
this subject, by the mysterious developments 
of modern spiritualism. Previously to this 
time, I had received angel visits, as I called 
them, and the knowledge I had gained of my 
susceptibility to influences^ and my fear of evil 
spirits, kept me separate from all association 
with ''mediums," using this word in its usual 
acceptation, or as having reference to such 
persons as are physically and mentally con- 
trolled by spirits. 

And here I would say, I believe my prog- 
ress has been at times retarded, from lack of 
faith in the way and manner of God's dealings 
with me. 

He who would progress spiritually, must be 
careful neither to limit nor prescribe, in any 
way, the methods of the Spirit's operations on 
his own mind and heart. The soul that sets 
limitations to itself, by prejudice, the result of 
preconceived and hereditary opinions, must 



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be left to barrenness, isolation, and suffering. 
This prejudice is one of the greatest hind- 
rances to the progress of the Church. " When 
the Spirit of Truth is come, He will lead you 
into all truth. And He shall testify of me." 
Is not this, specificall}', the office-work of the 
Spirit, to testifj^ of Christ ? The world is 
under judgment for not believing in Christ. 
And is not the church in the wilderness, and 
suffering from lack of faith in her living Lord? 

This is not a history, in any sense, of my 
external life and labors. There are long in- 
tervals of years, of which no records are 
here given, and during which time, as at all 
other times, I was occupied, firsts in the care 
of my family, which was considerable, having 
adopted six orphan children without father 
or mother, who were made a great blessing to 
me. I was led also to engage in special efforts 
to benefit the poor, neglected children of our 
vicinity — a labor attended with the blessing 
of God at every step, and perseveringiy fol- 
lowed. 

I might speak of successful efforts, in pri- 



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vate and public, to promote revivals of reli- 
gion — of marked answers to prayer — the 
Spirit breathing its utterances through me — 
of special faith exercised, and special results. 
I will only add, God has been with me and 
prospered me in every work of my hands, 
these labors being undertaken and carried on, 
as the Spirit of Truth led, and the Providence 
of God opened the way. But the object of 
this writing is rather to give extracts of inter- 
nal experiences, and of the tlioughts given me^ 
than of personal labors. 

However imperfect these sketches may be 
regarded, and as such I regard them myself, 
I must yet maintain that I am receiving, in 
common with many other Christians at the 
present time, the realization of the j)rophecy 
recorded by Joel, and fulfilled on the day of 
Pentecost. See Acts 2 : 17, 18th verses. If 
the testimony I bear to this truth, and to 
other truths, especially the indwelling of the 
Spirit of Christ, may prove a help to advance 
some souls nearer to God, to him be all the 
glory, — none belongs to the instrument. No 



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one, as it seems to me, can be more conscious 
of the imperfectness of the human view, com- 
pared with the truth of things as God sees 
them, than is the writer. And if there is any 
word of this manuscript, seeming to have a 
bearing on self-exaltation, God forgive it, and 
the reader, for this is not in accordance with 
the truth, as I apprehend it. ^' For as no 
man knoweth the things of a man, save the 
spirit of man, which is him ; even so, the 
things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit 
of God." All glory to God — none to the 
creature. 

February of the year 1839, marks a new 
era of my spiritual progress. Being at this 
time under the discipline of God's providence, 
and realizing the need of more grace, and en- 
couraged by the public testimony of a Christ- 
ian lady, a member of the Methodist Church, 
whose testimony seemed to me, in correspond- 
ence with that of Bible Christians, I was led 
to a study of the Word of God, in order to 
understand for myself, what was the gospel 
salvation, as a present experience. For many 



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weeks the Bible was my daily study, espec- 
ially the New Testament, with a sincere desire 
to know the truth. I came to the Word, 
believing I was able to understand it for 
myself, in the same way as I read understand- 
ingly, other writings. Surely, the truth God 
gives us, as the guide of our lives, cannot be 
beyond our comprehension, in its practical 
application to us as individuals. 

There may be hights and depths of the 
written Word, yet untraveled, but he who 
runs may read, " Believe on the Lord Jesus 
Christ, and thou shalt be saved." And this 
faith in continuous exercise, is the gospel sal- 
vation, and brings all the child of God needs. 

At this time, 1839, I came into great sym- 
pathy with the inspired writers, or with the 
truths they uttered. I read one chapter sev- 
eral times before proceeding to another, 
dwelling on each expression, in order to un- 
derstand its full meaning. I noticed these 
expressions, '' If any man love the world, the 
love of the Father is not in him " ; '' If ye have 
not the Spirit of Christ, ye are none of his." 



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The Spirit was in the Word, convincing me 
of sin on these two points. 

My eye rested on the words of Christ, 
" Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after 
righteousness, for they shall be filled." While 
remembering this promise, kneeling in prayer, 
peace^ the peace which Christ alone can give 
took possession of my spirit. The presence of 
Christ with me was as real as if he had been 
in the flesh, sitting by my side ; and as I read 
the words he uttered, I received them as fully 
as if I had heard his own voice. I now 
searched the Scriptures to find each and every 
promise. Each promise was to me as a bea- 
con-light to God. 

"^ A few weeks subsequently, I received what 
I may call, the baptism of the Spirit, or, 
a perceptible witness of the Spirit's power, 
bringing me still more sensibly into the pres- 
ence of God, and enabling me to say, " Lord, 
I am thine, entirely thine, let thy will be fully 
accomplished in me." 

One of the clearest impressions I received 
at this time, was this — that the light I was 



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now receiving, was not for me alone, but for 
others. Thus the power of God's Spirit was 
upon me from the beginning, to give utter- 
ance to my emotions; to spread the light, 
and not conceal it. 

In December of this year, my husband 
also — from whose lips at this time, Feb. 
1839, I first learned that the Methodists, or 
any sect, believed in a present full salvation, 
or purity of heart — experienced a similar 
state of grace. On Christmas morning, Dec. 
25th — memorable day ! — while we were yet 
praying, God heard and answered our united 
prayer ; his whole being was now an offering 
of praise and thanksgiving to God. He was 
'' treading," as he expressed it, '' with golden 
sandals on the mount of vision." It was then 
I wanted an angel's harp and lips to praise 
God. All I could do, was to fall back on my 
own nothingness and let God be all. 

A. week from this time, lying awake at an 
early hour in the morning, just above us, 
round about us, and near to us, I heard music 
— not of earth, but of heaven — angel harps, 



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blending harmoniously ! And my whole being 
echoed in still, but thrilHng emotions, praise, 
praise to our God — the God of heaven and of 
earth. The joy of heaven is sometimes heard 
on earth. There was a time when angel 
voices were heard, proclaiming, " peace on 
earth, good will to man." And now this is 
fulfilled in us. 

The thoughts and experiences that follow 
are extracts from my Note-Book, according 
to dates given. The poems I have inserted 
are the latest writings of my husband ; and 
are taken from a small volume of his, entitled 
" Christ in the Soul," published a few months 
previous to his decease. 




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Records. May 1839. 

After much deliberation and prayerful study 
of God's Word with reference to confessing 
Christ publicly with my lips, I was led to 
speak of the great salvation in our church 
prayer-meetings. The commands of God and 
the promises are addressed alike to man and 
woman. Woman is alike responsible to God 
for the use of her lips, and all the powers and 
faculties God has given her. The clear wit- 
ness and operations of the Spirit on my mind 
and heart, the new and life-giving truths 
received, transporting me, as it were, from 
earth to heaven, the life-long aspirations of 
my spirit being reached, could not be re- 
pressed. If one had found a mine of gold, 
sufficient to meet the wants of all the needy, 
would he not hasten to proclaim the glad 
tidings ? How much more, when the hidden 



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treasures of God's love are clearly revealed, 
making sure present and everlasting blessed- 
ness, and open to all ! " If any man hear 
my voice," etc., Rev. 3 : 20. " And the Spirit 
and the brides say, — Come." 




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III. 

June 36?, 1839. Awakened at an early hour 
this morning, my eyes were suddenly closed 
to external objects, and there appeared to my 
internal vision an angel figure, clothed in 
white drapery. A silver toned bell of great 
sweetness and delicacy rang in my ear, and a 
voice said, '' Speak for the Lord on all occa- 
sions." 

This was to me a confirmation of the teach- 
ings of the Word and of the Spirit relative 
to bearing public testimony, which was a 
great cross to me, on account of the restric- 
tions held by the Congregational churches, in 
one of which I was a member. 

Those who would quench the Spirit's utter- 
ances from the lips and heart of woman, know 
not what they do. Woman has received all 
from her Lord, and blessed is she who surren- 
ders all to him, lips, heart, and life. '' Behold 
the handmaid of the Lord ; he it unto me ac^ 
cording to thy word.'^^ 



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IV. 

June 2Qth, 1839. The Maine State Confer- 
ence of Congregational cliurches being in ses- 
sion in Brunswick this week, I arose in the 
early morning prayer meeting, held in our 
church, and bore witness to the fathers and 
brethren to the richness and fullness of the 
promises as a present realization, according to 
my recent experiences. These utterances were 
as unexpected to me at this time as to others, 
and were a manifest leading of the Spirit. Dur- 
ing the night previous I was held long awake, 
- — the presence and glory of God being round 
about me, — but I had no idea of speaking in 
this meeting, until the moment I arose. 

The advance of these churches on this point 
however,v at the present time, 1875, has been 
so great, that one cannot easily realize the 
cross I bore thirty years ago, in witnessing foi 
Christ in social meetings. 



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At the meeting of the Lincoln and Sagada- 
hoc County Conference of Maine, held in Wal- 
doboro, June 8th and 9th, 1875, the follow- 
ing resolution was adopted by a vote of 12 to 
3. ** Resolved, that in the opinion of this Con- 
ference, it is in accordance with the spirit and 
precept of the Gospel, that Christian women 
take part in social religious meetings with the 
same freedom as man, and that the practice 
is hereby recommended." 




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V. 



1840. ''Call unto me, and I will show the 
great and mighty things." As my eye rested 
on these words, I was led to pray, — though 
innocently, — for some special manifestation 
of God. No answer to my prayer being given, 
and finding myself in a state of unrest, such 
as I had not known since I found in Christ a 
present, personal Saviour, I set apart a day 
for fasting and prayer, to inquire of the Lord 
why it was thus with me. At the close of 
the day, as I was kneeling before God, I saw 
clearly my error. God was leading me in the 
right way, but in my ignorance I was asldng 
for something different. " Not my will, O 
God, but thine be done," was the prayer of 
our Lord. 

Prayer of Fenelon. " O Lord, I know not 
what I should ask of thee. Thou only know- 



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est what I want ; and thou lovest me better 
than I can love myself, if I am thy child. O 
Lord, give to me, thy child, what is proper, 
whatever it may be. I do not ask either 
crosses or comforts. I open my heart to thee. 
Behold my wants, of which I am ignorant, 
but do thou behold, and do according to thy 
mercy. Smite or heal. Depress me, or raise 
me up. I am silent. I offer myself in sacri- 
fice ; I abandon myself to thee. Lord, teach 
me to pray, I pray thee, dwell Thou Thyself 
in me by thy Holy Spirit." 




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VI. 

Continual Prayer. 

The secret of continual prayer 
Is this, the prayer is always one ; 

Discordant thoughts are never there ; 
It always says, ^^TJiy will he done.^' 

All private purpose to forsake, 
Accepting the Creator's plan, 

Is of the Godlike to partake. 
And realize the God in man. 

God is the Universal Life ; 

God is the Universal Will ; 
'T is ours to cease from nature's strife, 

And in the Life of God be still. 

Thus lost in thee, we cannot cease 
The everlasting prayer to raise ; 

Thus lost in thee, our souls in peace 
Become unchanging songs of praise. 



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VII. 

Dec. 31, 1847. At the close of this year, 
in reviewing the past, I discover two hind- 
rances to my spiritual progress, which I this 
day resolve, by the help of God, shall be hind- 
rances no longer. . . . Submission to things as 
they are, is the lesson of this hour. 

The end of trial will come only when the 
soul is entirely submissive to the will of God. 

'' The great secret of spiritual perfection is 
expressed in the words of St. Ignatius Loyola, 
' Hoc vult Deu%^ God wishes it. God wishes 
me to stand in this post, to fulfill this duty, to 
suffer this disease, to be afflicted with this 
calamity, this contempt, this vexation. God 
wishes this, whatever the world and self-love 
may dictate. Soc vult Deus. His will is my 
law." Broadstone of Honor. 



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VIIL 

In August, 1851, I received marked mani- 
festations of the Word. I was aroused from 
sleep to listen to the gentle rustling or move- 
ment of paper, as if touched by some hand. 
This movement was repeated at intervals for 
some thirty minutes. I knew it was supernat- 
ural, and an intelhgent power, for the paper 
moved gently, or more harshly, in unison with 
my right or wrong conception of its teachings. 
I realized that a power beyond my control 
was present, and was in fear, not knowing 
what might be the result. I was alone, my 
husband being from home. I understood how 
a thing that hath no life can be made to 
speak. This power or movement approached 
me nearer and nearer. Then came to me 
these words, internally I heard no outward 
voice. "God's word is above man's word — 
the word of the Lord descending to me." I 
prayed audibly, under the power of the Spirit. 



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After some time I fell asleep. And in my 
dreams I was with the angels, ascending, as 
in a chariot, upwards and upwards ; only a 
thin veil, as of gauze, separating me from 
them. I awoke in the morning in quietness 
of spirit, and rest in God, but remembering 
the words, never-to-be-forgotten, Crod^s word 
is above man^s word. 




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IX. 

Jan. 7, 1852. Greatly desiring light to be 
shed on my path, I received these words, as 
my eyes were opening to the early morning 
light — ''Walk in the liglit of Love; be not 
anxious about thy doings and sayings, when 
the love of God and desire to do his will has 
taken the place of every other desire of thy 
soul. Act as love prompts. Seek not so 
much a definite leading, or voice calling thee 
forth to some specific work, as for an indwell- 
ing spirit of love prompting thee to good 
words and works. When a definite leading 
becomes necessary God will give it." 




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X. 

Aug, 10, 1852. Have experienced in my 
physical system for some days past, an expres- 
sion of what is being accomplished in my 
spirit, yiz., a purifying as by fire — a consum- 
ing, so ta speak, of the selfish life. The evils 
of my selfish nature are not dislodged at once ; 
there are many fires to pass through, before 
the dross is all consumed. 

I am the Lord's, and whatever I undertake 
must be with reference to his glory. I must 
be careful of being influenced by words, which 
proceed from unsanctified lips — I must look 
alone to God for guidance. I must in some 
important sense, stand alone with God. '' My 
sheep hear my voice, and they follow ttz^." 
O tender Shepherd ! Thou callest me by thy 
word, and thou callest me by the voice of thy 
Spirit within me, to the death of the selfish 
life, that the life everlasting may be given me. 
The bush burned with fire, and yet was not 
consumed. It is only the chaff which the 
flames reach. 



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XL 

The Inward Burning. 

Be patient, let the fire consume ; 

Give God's interior burning room. 
Make no resistance, let it blaze. 

And sth] in root and branch, erase. 

The life of self hath long annoyed, 
Thy hopes assailed, thy joys destroyed ; 
It poisons every inward sense, 
And /re alone can drive it hence. 

The fiery trial gives distress, 
But never wish its anguish less; 
The pain thou feelest is a sign 
Of flames from heaven, of fire divine. 

Oh let it bui^n, till pride and lust. 
And envy creeping in the dust, 
And wrong and crime, of every name. 
Shall perish in the heavenly flame. 



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XII. 

July 30, 1853. Last evening I was per- 
mitted to welcome home my husband, after a 
year's absence abroad, with emotions unutter- 
able of joy and gratitude. Some days after 
the vessel sailed, I saw in a vision of the night 
the great steamship, with sails all set, speed- 
ing rapidly over the broad ocean, in the full 
blaze of the noonday sun, and I knew that all 
was well. There is meaning in a vision when 
a good angel portrays the scene and interprets 
it. After long wakefulness, I had fallen asleep, 
in a state of illness, and under a burden of 
grief, in sympathy with him, and on account 
of our separation, but as I awoke, my sadness 
was all gone. — And I may add at this date, 
1875, it did not return. The food that the 
angels bring us lasts many days. They come 
and go — they hide themselves; there is no 
chance to worship them. 



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XIII. 

August 15, 1853. I was aroused from sleep 
last night by the noise as of a bird, fluttering 
against the walls of my room. A window- 
being open and trees near, I thought some 
little bird had missed his nest and come in.. 
So continuous was the fluttering, I could not 
sleep, and arose and took another room. And 
in my sleep, my rooms, to my internal vision, 
was full of beautiful, flying birds. After a 
while, there was presented to my vision the 
scene of several persons killing and preparing 
birds as food. When ready, I sat down with 
them to partake of the repast, and immedi- 
ately became ill, and in the effort to eject the 
food from vaj stomach, I awoke. This vision 
I regarded as instructive, and in answer to my 
prayer as to what kind of food was best 
adapted to promote my health and spiritual 
development. My mind has been exercised 
on this point, and particularly during my 



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recent state of ill health ; and the conclusion 
at which I arrive is this, that God has provided 
better food for man in his advancing stages 
of progress, than the flesh of animals. 




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XIV. 

Sept, 1854. A prayer was given me a week 
since for the restoration of my health, which 
prayer warrants more expectation of a recov- 
ery, than any means used. One of the truths 
I have received, intellectually at least, since I 
clearly apprehended Christ as my Saviour, is 
this, Christ a Physician^ a Sealer of the body 
as well as the spirit; and in some sense, these 
are Qne, and operate mutually. In order that 
the ills of the flesh may be destroyed, we are 
sometimes made to experience a painful sense 
of the violation of physical laws. The child 
of God may have to pass through great physi- 
cal as well as spiritual straits, before the body 
is redeemed from those pressing ills that fet- 
ter the spirit, and hinder our happiness and 
usefulness. The violation of physical laws 
causes bad results, as the violation of spirit- 
ual laws when man is wholly regenerated. 
Every violation of the laws of our being, 
causes suffering. Suffering is a great teacher. 



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XV. 

Aug. 1855. On account of ill health, have 
spent much of my time this summer out of 
doors, in my border of flowers. God's flowers, 
whose varied forms and colors so delight me, 
and whose breath of sweetness I inhale in so 
many varied issues, stir deep fountains of 
blessed being within me. They seem a part 
of myself, or rather, a part of God's great 
bountiful Being. Let the flowers and the 
birds filling the air with gladness, live with 
me in Paradise ! The birds and the flowers 
have taught me many lessons* 




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XVI. 

The Flower of the Desert. 

One day, when traveling in the waste and 
barren peninsula of Sinai, I observed a small 
flower, — a very -ancommon object there — 
springing up by the lonely pathway, which 
gave rise to the following. 

One day in the desert, 

With pleasure I spied 
A flower in its beauty 

Looking up at my side. 
And I said, O sweet flow'ret 

That bloomest alone, 
What 's the worth of thy beauty, 

Thus shining unknown ? 

But the flower gave me answer, 
With a smile quite divine ; 

" 'T is the nature, O stranger, 
Of beauty, to shine. 



THE CEYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 36 

Take all I can give thee, 

And when thou art gone, 
The light that is in me, 

Will keep shining on. 

"And, oh, gentle stranger, 

Permit me to say. 
To keep up thy spirits 

Along this lone way. 
While thy heart shall flow outward 

To gladden and bless. 
The fount at its center 

Will never grow less." 

I was struck with its answer, 

And left it to glow. 
To the clear sky above it. 

And the pale sands below ; 
Above and around it, 

Its light to impart. 
But never exhausting 

The fount at its heart. 



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XVII. 

1856. — Did our Lord say much of himself, 
of his feelings, or experiences, or of his acts 
and doings ? Let me not sj)eak of myself, of 
what I am doing or experiencing, unless oc- 
casion demands it for the good of others. 
Talking of one's self has a tendency to nour- 
ish the hfe of self. John said of Christ, '' He 
must increase, but I must decrease." When 
we see ourselves as we are, our testimony of 
ourselves will be a very humble one, and 
brief. But of Christ, where will the testi- 
mony end ? 

The Tiew of Christ wonderfully enlarges 
to the advancing Christian, so as to fill the 
whole spiritual atmosphere, for he divides 
himself, so to speak, into many lesser orbs, 
whose circumference and radiance fill the 
whole heavens. 



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XVIIL 

May^ 1856. Visiting New York this month, 
I came in contact, very unexpectedly, in the 
house where I was visiting, with an invalid 
lady, a medium, whose physical and mental 
powers, at times, were subject to spirit control. 
I had indulged the greatest possible aversion 
to becoming a medium, in the ordinary use of 
this word ; and hence my fears were greatly 
aroused lest I should receive through her, 
some undue influence. I had a horror of los- 
ing in any degree the conscious possession of 
my own powers of body and mind which God 
had given me, for my own use, and not for the 
use of another. I prayed continuously. And 
in my extremity, I resorted to a measure I had 
never before adopted, viz., opening the Bible, 
with prayer for immediate direction, by the 
Word. This I did three times successively, 
and each time my eye rested on texts con- 
cerning evil spirits. 



38 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIK. 

My prayer was answered. I was saved from 
what I feared, '' possession " or '' obsession " ; 
and yet I experienced a severe conflict. 

And I may here add, at this date, 1875, this 
was my first and last interview with a medium, 
physically and mentally under spirit control. 
Alone in my room, I have been put in associa- 
tion with spirits and angels, and thus has been 
fulfilled to me, the prophetic vision of the an- 
gels, given me in 1851. 




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XIX. 

New Tork^ Dee. 1856. I am realizing at 
the present time a very near approach to God, 
and communion with the angels. The purity, 
the exaltation, the blessedness experienced, I 
can find no language to express. A beautiful 
sister-spirit is presented to my interior vision, 
as, "Sowing the seed,." " Scattering the truth 
everywhere," is the lesson I am now receiving. 
I seem to be separate, in some degree, from 
things external, to be in association with the 
angels, w^ithout any doubt, or fears, or misgiv- 
ings. I am conscious of an increasing spiritual 
development of my interior senses, and conse- 
quently an increasing knowledge of the spirit- 
world. The straits through Avhich I have 
passed, in gaining this knowledge, have de- 
manded the single eye and aim, — looking to, 
and depending on God alone. The prayer, 
''Deliver me from evil," this day, this hour, 



40 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN, 

has been offered in faith, and answered. And 
I reahze that those who put their trust in God 
cannot be confounded. There is a battle to 
be fought, in order to overcome, as the book 
of Revelation clearly teaches, but one in which 
the Seven Spirits before the throne are enlisted, 
and to whom the victory is sure. 

The telegraphic wires, that stretch across 
the land and sea, uniting both hemispheres, 
- are an outward expression of the internal spir- 
itual wires, that unite the natural and the 
spiritual worlds. We are living in the spirit- 
ual, as well as in the natural world, but our 
eyes are holden, to Christ, present, — to angels, 
to good spirits, — the spirits of just men made 
perfect, — and to evil spirits. God's vast uni- 
verse ! Where are its limitations, but in man's 
finite conceptions ? 




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XX. 

Thoughts in Rhyme. 

To purify the soul of man, 
This is the great Creator's plan ; 
To raise his spirit from the dust, 
From the control of sinful lust. 
And make his nature one with God, 
This is the path that Enoch trod. 

The temple of the glorious One 
To where the Lord himself has come. 
New beauties ever shall display- 
As morning opens on the day. 
Know, it is not the bursting sound. 
That thunders loud and cleaves the ground ; 
But in the still small voice are given 
The words of truth that come from heaven. 
Be quiet then — a peaceful one, 
And I will be to thee a Sun, 
Which shall not dazzle e'en thine eye. 
So gently shall the '' manna " lie 



42 THE CRYSTAL rOUNTATN". 

Upon the texture of tliy soul 
O'er which thy God holds full control. 
Thy soul shall be a hidden spring. 
From which pure waters I will bring ; 
The Word incarnate yet must be 
In deed and truth aUied to thee. 

The current flow of thought divine 
Proceeding from th' etherial clime 
Is full of life and loveliness ; 
This is the beauty of its dress. 
The form it wears is gentle, soft, 
As on the ground lay the hoar frost ; 
This symbol to thy soul is given 
Of the descent of bread from heaven. 

When on the first creation morn, 
Adam upon the earth was born, 
God saw his image in the child, 
Reflection, beautiful and mild. 
By disobedience, ruin came, 
Man hid himself from God in shame. 
The Deluge shows how great the fall, 
It brought destruction over all. 



THE CBYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 43 

The Rainbow was the promise given 
Of mercy yet in store from heaven. 
From rising to the setting sun 
Shall o'er the earth my glory run. 

Radiant as in celestial spheres 
The Lord of glory now appears. 
The shouts are echoing thro' the sky, 
The angel bands are drawing nigh, 
The noon-day light of Jesus' reign, 
Shows all the powers of darkness slain. 

The sea ! the sea ! shall be no more, 
I still the angry billows roar ! 
Within is this unquiet sea 
So long to man a mystery. 
Here are the waters vast and deep. 
Wherein so many monsters keep, 
And hide themselves from light of day. 
And still within the waters play. 
These are the reasonings of the soul, 
O'er which the serpent gains control, 
While he can keep those powers in play. 
O'er the whole man he beareth sway. 



44 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN". 

The sea ! the sea ! shall be no more, 
I still the angry billows roar. 
I give my children power to tread 
On serpents, and on scorpion's head. 

As from the burning bush there came, 
The light of God's etherial flame. 
So from the bramble and the thorn. 
Of dying self^ shall Christ be born. 
The bramble, not the myrtle tree, 
Th' issuing forth of fire shall see. 
To little ones that lie concealed. 
From their own view, is Christ revealed. 
To little ones, the key is given, 
T' unlock the mysteries of heaven. 

Thy will, O God, not mine be done. 
Thus spake the well-beloved Son. 
And thus his offspring shall proclaim, 
The glory of Immanuel's reign. 
A mirror each of Christ shall be. 
Where his reflection all may see. 
The sea of glass, in open space. 
Reflects but one, Immanuel's face. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 45 



XXI. 

1857. In a dream or vision, last night, I 
was visiting with a friend the grave of her 
son Henry, a young man of great promise. 
After pursuing at some distance a winding 
path, we entered upon an open space, where 
music was flowing in sweet harmonies, the 
mounds of earth gently rising and swelling. 
Presently my eye rested on the surrounding 
scenery, where I beheld living verdure, living 
trees, every leaf instinct with life — hills and 
mountains in the distance, — palisades of stone 
studded with brilliant gems. The sight was 
overpowering ; I turned away, and closed my 
eyes. Again I looked, and every nerve and 
fibre of my being was thrilling with delight. 
I never knew until this moment what it was 
to be gloriously alive^ and of how much happi- 
ness the human soul is susceptible ! In the 
power of these ecstatic emotions, I awoke with 



46 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTArN'. 

exclamations of wonder and delight ! And 
my reflection was tliis: we had found Henry, 
not in the cold, damp earth, but in the sur- 
roundings of heaven. 

Not long since I saw in vision a friend of 
mine, in her glorified body, the most beautiful 
object I ever beheld. Her figure, her attitude, 
her transparent face and expression, all heam- 
ing love^ surpass the power of description. I 
thought all heaven must be attracted to her. 
I now understood how the "same seed" can 
be raised up, and yet put on a glorious appear- 
ance! 




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XXIL 

Leaving the Prison. 

Oh come, oh haste, imprisoned minds ; 

Awake to fatal slumber given ; 
'T is Love that comes ; our chains unbinds ; 

He calls us up to life and heaven. 

Love lights the prisoner's gloomy cell ; 

Love rules the cottage ; rules the throne ; 
He smites the tyrant's citadel. 

And everywhere he claims his own. 

Old bards proclaim'd his mighty power, 
In earth's young days when time was new ; 

And now in his triumphant hour, 
Aye find their prophet voices true. 

Oh come, oh haste, imprisoned minds ; 

Awake to fatal slumbers given ; 
'T is Love that comes ; our chains unbinds ; 

He calls us up to life and heaven. 



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XXIII. 

A Day of Retribution. 

3Iarch^ 1857. — Have received, this month, 
at several different times, marked impressions 
of a coming Day of Retribution. Have had 
deep and solemn and heavy exercises, not ap- 
pertaining to myself, which I cannot under- 
stand, reminding me of Abraham's expression, 
*' an horror of great darkness fell upon me." 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 49 



XXIV. 

Madame Guyon's Letters. 

July^ 1857. — During the last few months I 
have been happily occupied in translating 
from the French some portions of Madame 
Guyon's letters. Her words come to me, some- 
times, with a breath of sweetness, as if she 
were present, speaking to me from her own 
inspired lips. I know something, experimen- 
tally, of the depths of her humiliation, of her 
experience of weakness and imperfection, and 
of her positive faith in God, of her inward 
God-given life, and God-preservedlife. 

It is dissimilaritjT^ of state that constitutes 
space, or distance in heaven and on earth. We 
may be personally present with one, and yet 
far separated in spirit. We may be personally 
absent, and yet present in spirit ; our thoughts 
and emotions being held in the same sphere of 
celestial electricity, or spiritual life. 




50 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN". 

God is a Spirit. Christ breathed on the 
disciples, and thus communicated his Spirit. 
It is this influence, or power of God's Spirit, 
which unites the spirits of earth and heaven. 

Where God is, by man's inner perception of 
his presence, there is the knowledge of what 
heaven is ; there is the communion of saints 
and angels, — thus heaven is open in man. 

The time has come, O God, when thou wilt 
make a farther revelation of thyself m man, to 
'those who are willing thus to receive thee. 
The heart is thj^ chosen temple, thou God of 
love ; the heart is thy dwelling place, not the 
w^alls of wood and stone, framed by man. Sol- 
omon's temple must be overthrown ; not one 
stone left upon another, when the glory of 
God enlightens the whole man. 




THE CEYSTAL FOUKTAIN. 61 



XXV. 

God's Glory in his Saints. 

I thought, O God, thyself to see, 

When I should reach the heavenly clime, 

Displayed in kingly majesty, 
Upon a shining throne sublime. 

But thou didst say, behold me noU\ 
Cloth'd in a vesture like thine own ; 

Mine eye illumes man's sainted brow, 
My love hath made his heart its throne. 

In Christ the lesson first began ; 

I dwelt in him and he in me ; 
And now each new-born Christ-like man, 

Proclaims the same great mystery. 

The holy man is God reveal'd ; 

In him God makes his glory Jcnoivn^ 
Behold it, with thine eye unseal'd. 

Believe ! and make it all thine own. 




62 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



XXVI. 

Tpie True Church. 

There is no true church but the church of 
which Christ is the head. An external church 
of forms and ceremonies, adhering to false and 
worldly principles, is only a cloak for fashion- 
able sins. The sooner it falls to pieces the 
better. Believers in Christ must loose them- 
selves from bondage to such a church. The 
fundamental principles of the true Christ 
church are, a separation from all sin, equality 
in the sexes, an enlargement in the divine hu- 
manity, which is the Christ-man, tj'pified in 
the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The internal Christ is to be the foundation 
stone of the Millennial Church. Each member 
of the true church is on an equality, and 
should labor side by side, and neither arrogate 
to themselves power over the other. The Di- 
vine Word makes no distinction in duty, civil. 



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63 



ecclesiastical, or religious between man and 
woman. This is the divine order in the heav- 
enly state, and must become so on earth, as 
the kingdom of Christ advances. 




64 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN, 



XXVII. 

Sin Exposed and Condemned. 

As when Christ appeared on earth, casting 
out devils was an important service rendered 
to man, so in the glory of his fuller manifesta- 
tion, there will be a marked onset against the 
powers of evil. Satan is a general term, rep- 
resenting all evil. The casting out of devils 
is the liberation of man from the evils of his 
selfish nature. Mary Magdalene was a saved 
woman. 

Disobedience to divine law is the only evil 
in the universe. When man submits himself 
wholly to God, the principle of evil will disap- 
pear as chaff before the Avind. It will die 
when the will-power of man no longer em- 
braces it. Whoever condemns sin in himself 
is putting Satan to death. 

Crosses, trials of various kinds, now await 
the children of God. By these the carnal life 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 55 

must be pursued to death. It must expire on 
the cross. 

The death of the carnal life is prefigured in 
Christ by the bloody sweat, the nails that 
pierced his flesh, the spear which entered his 
heart, the seat of the natural affections. His 
divine nature did not suffer. Such was its 
immaculate nature and power it could have 
crushed the universe if this had been in the 
order of God for man's progress. 




66 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



XXVIII. 

An End to Sin. 

Nor man nor angels can foretell 

Events, which I to thee declare, 
The wrath of God, revealed to man, 

The punishment of sin to bear. 
The time is come when laws must act, 

And carry out their fuU results ; 
Evil is moving to its place 

And end, in God's vast universe. 

Sin is to be destroyed by its own acts ; re- 
straints being removed for the good of the 
universe. 

How shall I understand times and seasons ? 

Ans. — Not until the things are accom- 
plished. What is revealed is true, but the 
time of its accomplishment to the mind of 
man is uncertain. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 67 



XXIX. 

The Spirit of Love. 

The heavens and the earth so long at vari- 
ance are now to become one by the incarnation 
of the Spirit of Love. God is love in his 
essence and outbirth into finite forms. Christ 
was an embodiment of love. For an external 
manifestation of pure love, study the life of 
Christ, his sayings and doings. His interior 
state can only be known by an experience of 
the same state. And to this state, holy men 
and women are now advancing. When the 
spirit of love becomes incarnated in man, he 
becomes allied to the angels, yea, he is an an- 
gel in a human form, after the pattern of the 
Lord Jesus Christ. There is now no longer 
any disturbance of the outward and inward 
man. All is in harmony with itself, because 
in harmony witli God. 



68 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTATN'. 

It is to this high position God is now calling 
his church. And those shepherds who do not 
lead their flocks to the Living Fountain, Christ 
himself, Christ within, will themselves die of 
thirst. But the work will not die. From the 
bosom of the church will arise heaven-inspired 
men and women, whom God will use to ad- 
vance his kingdom in the world. 




THE CRYSTAL FOUKTAIN. 59 



XXX. 

The Measurement of Love. 

Go, count the sands that form the earth, 
The drops that make the mighty sea ; 

Go, count the stars of heavenly birth, 
And tell me what their numbers be. 
And thou shalt know Love's mystery. 

No measurement hath yet been found, 
No lines or numbers that can keep 

The sum of its eternal round. 
The plummet of its endless deep. 
Or hights, to which its glories sweep. 

Yes, measure Love, when thou canst tell 
The lands where seraphs have not trod, 

The hights of heaven, the depths of hell, 
And lay thy finite measuring rod 
On the infinitude of God. 



60 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIK. 



XXXI. 

Angel Help Physically. 

During the hours of sleep last night, I ex- 
perienced a sensation of being borne along, or 
carried in the arms of an angel. I had no 
sense of my own weight, neither was the 
movement of the angel retarded in bearing me 
up. And as I awoke this morning, these 
words were given me : "He shall give his an- 
gels charge concerning thee." I have a strong 
testimony to bear to the truth of angel minis- 
try, not only in imparting spiritual strength, 
but also physical strength. Called to lead a 
social meeting in a large vestry in Boston in 
March, 1858, from which I felt a great shrink- 
ing, I noticed the Bible lying on the desk 
was a very heavy one. I could not take a stand 
in the desk, and as I took the Bible in my 
hands, it was of no weight at all ; and this was 
noticed by others, as well as myself. The 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 61 

work that Grod gives us to do^ he will give us 
strength to accomplish^ spiritual or physical. 

The presentation to my mind, by an evil 
spirit some years ago, of God as a hard mas- 
ter, was one of the most trying temptations I 
ever experienced. At this time I had a dis- 
tinct perception of an evil spirit present^ and I 
saw Satan, as lightning, — by a quick descent, 
— thrust out from my spirit. Where God is, 
Satan has no place. 




62 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



XXXII. 

Keeping Time with God. 

Whate'er our thoughts or purpose be, 
They cannot reach their destined end, 

Unless, O God, they go with thee, 

And with thy thoughts and purpose blend. 

Keep time with God, and then the power 
Which in his mighty arm doth lie, 

Shall crown the designated hour 

With wisdom, strength, and victory. 

Be not too fast, be not too slow ; 

Be not too early, not too late ; 
Go, where his orders bid thee go ; 

Wait, when his orders bid thee wait. 

Keep time with God. Await his call, 
And step by step march boldly on ; 

And thus thou shalt not faint nor fall. 
And thus shalt wear the victor's crown. 



THE CKYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 63 



XXXIII. 

Ministry of the Christ-man. 

1860. From the human soul, regenerated, 
proceeds the voice of God, the voice of the 
angels to man. And thus man becomes a 
fountain of life, receiving and pouring forth 
rich treasures of thought and emotion from the 
angelic spheres. There is a hearing and see- 
ing spiritually, with the internal ear and eye, 
as clear and definite as external perception to 
the outward ear and eye. Mind reaches mind, 
thought reaches thought, and this is spirit- 
ual intercourse, or intercourse with spirits 
and angels. Knowledge thus gained, coming 
through a holy angel, is knowledge of the 
highest kind. It has its outflow through the 
spiritual nature of man, now to be more fully 
developed, in order that higher inspirations 
may reach and benefit the world. The purest, 
highest truths can come only through a holy 



64 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

spiritual nature. If committed to an unholy 
man, they become perverted. There is an 
order of God in nature and in spirit which 
cannot be contravened. There is too much 
fear and rejection of these divine inbreathings 
on the part of the church, and thus the open- 
ing heavens in man are shut up. Where, O 
where shall the heavens 023en, if not within 
the spiritual, holy nature of redeemed man ? 




THE CKYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 65 



XXXIV. 

Heaven Within Us. 

" It is time to be thinking of heaven," 
So the voice of the teachers doth say ; 

But the heaven to which they would lead us 
Is a heaven that is far, far away. 

They tell us, that, o'er the dark, river, 
We will land on the heavenly shore ; 

But is it not wiser and better, 

To find that bright Canaan before ? 

*' The kingdom of God is within you," 
The greatest of teachers hath said ; 

And the faithful and loving have found it, 
And enjoy'd it, before they were dead. 

The kingdom of God is within you ; 

Let doubtings and sorrows depart ; 
The kingdom of God is within you, 

It dwells in the sanctified heart. 



66 THK CBYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

XXXV. 

A Word in Season. 

New Yorh^ 1860. Held a conversation of 
great interest with a lady of deep experimental 
knowledge of herself, and of Christ. After 
suggesting to her several points of inquiry 
having a bearing on self-examination, she said 
to me, " Let yourself alone ; what have I 

to do, with A. B ? (calling herself by 

name). I have found out that self is good 
for nothing, let it alone." 

Instruction not easily forgotten by me, and 
yet a lesson hard to learn. Let self die — 
nourish it as little as possible by looking in 
that direction. 

"Looking unto Jesus," is the word for the 
advancing Christian. 

I have seen the little ant constructing with 
so much care its little hill, and I have thought 
of myself, nourishing self — it must die. 

" Let go ! let go ! let go ! " 

" Hold to nothing hut God,'^ 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTATN". 67 



XXXVI. 

Death to Self. 

Look not for a true living strength 

In the life of the me and the I, 
With nothing to love but its self-hood, 
And fearing to suffer and die. 
As thou seekest the fruit 

From the seed-planted grain, 
Seek life that is living, 
From life that is slain. 

Then hasten to give it its death-blow. 

By nailing the I to the Cross ; 
And thou shalt find infinite treasure. 
In what seemeth nothing but loss ; 
For where if the seed 

Is not laid in the ground, 
Shall the germ of the new 
Resurrection be found ? 



68 THE CRYSTAL FOUXTAIX. 

The soul is the Lord's little garden, 

The I is the seed that is there ; 
And he watches it, while it is dying, 
And hath joy in the fruits it doth bear. 
In the seed that is buiied 

Is hidden the power 
Of the life-birth immortal 
Of fruit and of flower. 

'T is hidden, and yet it is true ; 

'Tis mystic, and yet it is plain ; 
A lesson which none ever knew, 
But souls that are inwardly slain ; 
That God, from thy death. 

By his Spirit shall call 
The life ever-living, 
The life, all in all. 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 69 

XXXVII. 

Spirit Interview. 

Feb. 8, 1861. Last evening held a real, or 
supposed conversation with a '' Friend,'' 
whose writings I was reading with great in- 
terest. Being conscious of a spirit presence, 
I took my pencil, and the following conversa- 
tion ensued. The spirit said, '' The Lord by 
his Spirit is with thee to accomplish a great 
work." How do you know this? Answer, 
'' By thy state of progress. God does not call 
thee to thy present state to let this grace upon 
thee be lost." Are your views the same as 
expressed in your writings ? Answer, '' They 
are changed in some respects." In what 
respects are you more enlightened ? Answer, 
" Into the Godhead, God is now presented to 
me, as existing in man^ as outbirthed in man, 
and not otherwise reached by man." Are wc 
then to find our God — our happiness in each 
other? Answer, ''Yes, this is the order of 



70 THE CRYSTAL FOUI^TArN-. 

God for us." Do we then worship the saints ? 
Answer, "No more than we worship our- 
selves ; it is subordinate worship." What one 
thought will you impart, as a blessing to me ? 
Answer, " Follow the leadings of the Spirit 
in thine own heart. Thou must be blind as 
.to guiding thyself, and deaf as to what others 
say of thee." How did you get access to my 
spirit ? Answer, " By thy sympathy with my 
labors. This sympathy drew me towards thee 
in a similar way as if I were present in the 
form." Farewell, my Friend. Answer, '' Fare- 
thee-well." 

This conversation, which to me was real, I 
regard as instructive, showing the influences 
that may reach our minds by means of the 
books we read. 

If the spirit of the man is thus associated 
with his writings, how important what books 
we read ! And of how much value to us are 
the writings of the holy prophets and apos- 
tles, and the words of Christ ! " The words 
that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they 
are life." 



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XXXVIII. 

The War. 

Sept^ 1861. This is a day of darkness and 
desolation to the nominal church, a large por- 
tion of which are hurrying on — Satan their 
leader — to war and bloodshed. Under what- 
ever pretext, war is a violation of the principle 
of universal brotherhood. Christians should 
look to the Lord for wisdom in argument to 
promote peace, and not bear arms. This na- 
tion, so exalted, is become a desolation. 

I now understand that those marked exer- 
cises and impressions I received in 1857, — 
experiences deep and solemn, betokening "a 
day of retribution," and reminding me of 
Abraham's vision, when a horror of great 
darkness fell upon him, as having reference to 
this terrible war. Every household over the 
land fears and trembles. Verily, sin is pun- 
ishing itself — is carrying out its legitimate 
results. " They that take the sword, shall 
perish with the sword." 



72 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



XXXIX. 

The Multitude of Slain. 

When the Millennium comes, 
Of love and peace the reign, 

We all shall wondering look, and see 
The multitude of slain. 

Stern pride with sullen air. 
And hate with scowling eye. 

And troubled fear and wild despair. 
Are destined all to die. 

Suspicion's busy throng, 

And falsehood's lying breath. 

And violence, and war, and wrong, 
Shall sink to endless death. 

Oh haste, Millennial Day ! 

Bring back the brighter years ; 
And banish from the world its crimes. 

And wipe away its tears. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 73 



XL. 

State Preparatory to Divine Teach- 
ings. 

1861. There is a state of the Soul which 
may be called a state of barrenness, and yet 
an advanced stage of progress, — a state in 
which it is seemingly abandoned to itself, to 
its own nothingness. It can ask no questions, 
it seems to possess neither gifts nor graces nor 
power. This is a state preparatory to Divine 
teachings, in order that the soul, being con- 
vinced of what it is in itself, may take no glory 
to itself, but receive whatever light is admit- 
ted into it, as of God. This may be regarded 
a blessed state of openness to God. If the 
mind is filled with self-originated thoughts 
and opinions, it would be impossible for the 
voice of Truth to be heard in the soul. The 
soul in this state is ready to act as occasion 
prompts, or, as the Spirit gives utterance. 



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74 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

It is a great lesson for the child of God to 
learn, to receive all his states from God, to 
know that all its life centers in God, in his 
manifested will. Oh, how barren must the 
soul become of any desire for self-gratification, 
in which God speaks and acts ! It is fearful 
to indulge any desire for self-gratification, 
even to desire, inordinatelj", the presence of 
an angel, for in this desire the enemy may 
lurk. We are only safe in leaving all to God. 
It is his prerogative to open the interiors of 
the soul ; no human agency can effect this. 
God alone knows how to carry forward the 
soul, from step to step, that is committed to 
his keeping. 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 75 



XLI. 

Peace and Inspiration. 

Be still ! Let noise and passion cease ; 

Let heavenly quiet fill the mind 
With gentle, pure, celestial peace, 

To good and ill alike resigned. 

'T is in the silence of the soul. 

When peace invokes its mighty charm, 
When passion's billows cease to roll, 

And all within is sweetly calm. 

That Inspiration's power sublime. 

With truths before unknown, unheard. 

Descends from heaven's angelic clime. 
Proclaiming heaven's eternal word. 

'Tis then that God, in whispers sweet. 
Comes near, his lessons to impart ; 

And writes them in the temple meet. 
Of a resigned and quiet heart. 



76 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



XLIL 

Madam Guyon's State. 

Madam Guj^on speaks of the ''infant Jesus/' 
whom she ''embraces." I understand her to 
mean from this and other expressions, that 
Christ, or the essential Christ, the Christ-spirit, 
or nature, which is Love, is so incorporated in 
her being, that only as she pays homage to 
this divine interior, or follows the inspirations 
of the spirit icithin her^ she lives spiritually. 

Seek not so much a definite leading, or di- 
vine voice, calling thee to some specific acts 
as, an indwelling spirit of love, or state of 
grace, underlying and prompting to good 
works and words. God does not take away 
but establishes man's freedom, when he be- 
comes truly the child of God, by regeneration. 
Now all the powers and faculties play more 
freely, having come into greater harmony ; the 
machinery of the soul being rightly adjusted, 
there is less friction. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 77 

XLIII. 

Man the Temple of God. 
Oh, where is God ? Where shall my troubled 

mind, 
The stamp and glory of the Godhead find ? 
Look forth, the wonders of creation scan, 
And find that glory in the '' Son of Man." 

Yes, in the humble Mary's infant child 

The Godhead was revealed, looked forth, and 

smiled ; 
Not found in wood, or brass, or sculptured 

stone, 
But in the human form, and there alone. 

And wouldst thou now behold his glory shine, 
Revealed in beauty and in grace divine, 
Look on the renovated man and see 
The marks and brightness of the Deity. 

Not man, obscur'd in self^ and dead and lost, 
But man, the temple of the Holy Ghost ; 
Man, in the spirit of the Christ made whole, 
Pure in the outward life, and pure in soul. 



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XLIV. 

Alone with God. 

Feb. 1862. Let me dwell with God still in 
my retirement, and live obediently to divine 
teachings, or promptings of my inward life. I 
cannot say, self promptings, for these have 
given place to divine. So it seems to me, 
more and more. And yet my life may seem 
common, in the main, to others, and so it is, 
for I have more and more of the naturalness 
of a child, — am more submissive to circum- 
stances over which I have no control. 

The angels have a mission on earth, yet 
they are not peremptory; neither do they 
proceed ordinarily with great outward mani- 
festations, but rather by silent, suggestive 
influence. And how was the mission of the 
Son of God accomplished ? Surely, none can 
misunderstand the secret of his power, from 
within. The word spoken hy him was with 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 79 

power. ''He spake and it was done." There 
is power in words, uttered in the Spirit of 
God. There is power in the presence of a 
holy person. '' The good man seen, though 
silent, counsel gives." He who has this 
power of words, and this power of presence, 
dwells in God, and God in him ; thus it is 
God who accomplishes the work, and not 
man. 




80 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



XLV. 

Good Perverted to Evil. 

Jan, 1862. — Was led a few days since to 
offer this petition in faith — ''Deliver me 
tMs day from evil." At this time God was 
revealing in me his own truth, but this truth 
being so contrary to my preconceived opin- 
ions, I was reluctant to receive it. And thus 
days of darkness followed ; communion with 
God was interrupted. And on inquiry of the 
Lord, why is it thus with me, the inner 
voice answered, that, " for lack of faith, good 
is sometimes made to appear evil ; and in 
order to answer my prayer, the good must be 
withheld, which I pervert to evil." 

Verily, God is teaching me as man never 
taught. My soul is deeply humbled, in view 
of my fearfulness and slowness to receive the 
Spirit's teachings. Sorrow must come to him 
who puts darkness for light, — who having 
eyes to see, sees not. 



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XLVI. 

On an Intermediate State. 

[This and the Succeeding Ten Sections webe Written 
IN 1862.] 

The spirit-world, or intermediate state, the 
state into which spirits are first introduced 
when they leave the earth body, comprises va- 
rious grades of being, as in the natural world. 
Indeed, it is the same world, only in the spirit- 
ual degree. The same law^s of being operate. 
Man is no more a machine after death than 
before. States in the spirit world are more 
defined, less disguised, so that one can more 
readilj^ choose the good and avoid the evil. 
And thus dissimilar states cause greater sepa- 
ration. 

It is man's will or choice which decides his 
destiny. Man is, after death, what he was 
previous to death; that is, his abode in the 
spirit-world corresponds to his state, at the 



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time of his death. As he overcomes e^il, he 
reaches higher states. When all evil is over- 
come, the state becomes one of permanent 
blessedness. It is not locality, but state which 
determines the destiny of the soul. Thus the 
mixed state continues until all evil is overcome, 
or all good rejected. 




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XLVII. 

Open Intercourse with the Spirit 
World. 

It is not designed that man shall remain 
always in the infancy of his being. He is to 
develop from infancy to manhood. It is the 
law of being to expand into clearer knowledge 
of itself, of its adaptations and uses, and this 
unfolding we term spiritual, or, a rise above 
the natural. Man is now advancing, in the 
order of God, into this more mature state — 
a state in which the inner man will control 
the outer man. It is this development of 
man's spiritual nature — the opening of the 
interior senses, of sight, of hearing, of touch, 
which causes, or makes apparent spirit inter- 
course, at the present time. This advance- 
ment belongs to man universal, and is irre- 
spective of the good or evil state of the soul. 

In introducing a new and higher order of 



84 THE CBYSTAI. FOUNTAIN. 

life to the children of earth, there must be, of 
necessity, an OYertuming of fake, external 
systems, adapted to a previons dispensation, 
and apparent confusion is a necessary result. 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 85 



XLVIII. 

Spiritual Influences not Compulsory. 

Eyery man has a character of his own, 
which no influences brought to bear upon him 
can wholly subvert. The moral character of 
the soul — its choice — determines the influ- 
ences which control it. When the soul is 
undecided, or in a mixed state, choosing 
sometimes good, and at other times evil, it 
is operated upon both by good and evil 
spirits. 

The above topic is one involving nice 
points. If an individual has given himself 
wholly to God, good spirits are his helpers, 
and in order to be faithful to their trust, must 
often precede the action of the unenlightened 
mind. And in this way may be said to con- 
trol, not otherwise. God makes a distinction 
between unenlightened intellect and the will. 
When the heart is right, and a rejection of 



86 THE CKYSTAL FOUNTAIN, 

the truth precedes from a dull perception, or 
want of enlightenment, God never forsakes 
the soul, but pursues it, until the mind is en- 
lightened. A settled conviction of the finite 
nature of man and his fallen state, is of great 
importance. And this is true of man in the 
spirit world, or intermediate state, as of man 
in the natural world. And, in the intercourse 
which takes place between man in the natural 
body and man in the spiritual body, this fact 
of man's imperfectness must never be lost 
sight of ; otherwise man becomes less a man 
than previous to his development. 

In carrying out our good devices, good 
spirits aid us, and give us increased strength 
to labor ; but, if we construe this into a cer- 
tainty that our plans on this account will 
succeed, we may soon find ourselves deceived, 
deceived not by the spirits, but self-deceived, 
reckoning from false premises. 

Let it be remembered that good spirits are 
with us, as are our good friends, and have no 
more knowledge, or power, or certainty, as to 
results of a given course, than we have. And 



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87 



in many things, their judgment is not so good 
as ours, not being so well acquainted with the 
circumstances. 




88 THE CRYSTAL TOUXTAIX. 



XLIX. 

Results of Man's Spiritual Develop- 
ment. 

When man is spiritually developed, he 
then becomes a mature man. His capacities 
and powers are greatly increased. He will 
no longer be in subjection to material things, 
but rather control them. Thus the angels 
have power over material substances, as when 
they rolled away the stone from the door of 
the sepulchre, in some respects analagous to 
the power which God exerts, when he wills, 
and it is done. Not that unlimited power is 
an attribute or quality of a finite being. This 
power is rather a limited power, within the 
range of finite capacity, and for definite ends. 

In this state of spiritual development, man 
is capable of greater good or greater evil. 
Hence, his happiness or misery is greatly in- 
creased. He rises higher, or sinks lower in 
his moral being, because of the influences of 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 89 

his choice being brought to bear more fully 
upon him. He stands less alone, being more 
open of access to the vast spiritual world. 
According to his internal state are his com- 
panions and helpers. He ranks naturally 
with those who are of the same moral relig- 
ious, or irreligious grade of being, on the 
principle that like seeks like. 




90 THE CPwYSTAL FOUKTAIN. 



L. 
Hindrances and Helps. 

The spiritual body being of more delicate 
structure than the natural, is easily overpow- 
ered and clogged in its operations by the 
natural body. Hence it is necessary to refine 
animal matter in order to remove the obstruc- 
tions. Man must partake of purer food, and 
eat less in quantity. As the natural senses 
are developed by cultivation, so are the spir- 
itual. The same laws govern the spmtual as 
the natural, only carried to a higher degree of 
perfection. The eye, the ear, the touch, — 
all sensations are comprised within these 
divisions. Souls, or spiritual bodies have 
mutual relations and dependencies which are 
but little understood. Xo man is solitary, or 
separated from other minds or spirits. 

Aside from the natural laws of develop- 
ment, there is a deeper, more interior law, 
which involves a right state of the heart, and 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 91 

which is effected by conversion and regen- 
eration. To turn the mind or thoughts to 
God, is not regeneration. 

Regeneration, or being born of God, is the 
highest work, or the completion, or perfection 
of man, — a restoration to the divine image, 
in which state the will of God takes the place 
of the will of man, and the soul in all action 
or desire or will or purpose is transferred 
from itself to God. In the restoration of the 
soul to its right state, there is no obstruction 
to intercourse with the angels. 

In the communications or revelations made 
from God to man, in all ages of the world, 
the Word is received internally, is inspoken, 
and shaped as to language by the mind of the 
receiver. Hence the variety of style in the 
Biblical writers. 

The opening of the internal senses brings 
us nearer to God, and nearer to each other. 
It opens a direct communication with higher 
spheres to be made available in time of need. 
It greatly enlai'ges the sphere of sympathy and 
general co-operation on the same plane with 



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THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAi:Nr. 



ourselves, so that we thus have added strength 
combined with our strength. And further, it 
opens the way to the perfection of man, by 
the union of two natures in one. 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 93 



LI. 

Spirit Communications Tested. 

All communications from spirits, not holy 
angels sent of God, should be carefully weigh- 
ed in the same manner as man's communica- 
tions, and followed or rejected as an enlight- 
ened judgment authorizes. They mast be 
received in a spirit of prayer, and an earnest 
desire not to be misled by the spirit of error. 
The opening of the interior senses, or the 
power or susceptibility of mind which enables 
one to communicate with good angels, subjects 
one by a law of spirit-action, to other spirit 
agencies. In other words, the spiritual senses 
being open and accessible, spirits may approach 
from different spheres. Man is not limited to 
a certain class of spirits as long as he mingles 
in different spheres of the world. Hence the 
necessity of much prayer in reference to all 
spirit-communications, that we may discern 



94 THE CRYSTAL FOUNT AIN". 

the spirit, and compare the teaching with the 
Word, and enlightened reason and judgment, 
and thus be prepared to act deliberately and 
wisely. 

Good angels Avho communicate with man 
are suggestive, rather than imperative, leaving 
man to develop in his own freedom and power 
of choice. Yet, in some cases where the heart 
is right, and error embraced as truth from 
want of enhghtenment, the angels may use 
compulsory methods for a time ; but ordinarily 
their office is rather to draw than to compel. 
Heaven does not differ from earth in its laws 
of action, or operation of mind upon mind. 
These laws are perfect and unchangeable. 
The surrender of one's consciousness, his 
powers of thought and perception to another 
spirit is subversive of the whole order of man's 
being. This is Satan's perversion of the or- 
derly development of man's spiritual nature. 

Unless something special is to be revealed, 
the line of communication is cut off from 
higher spheres ; and the responses, if there 
are such, are from associate spirits. If any 



THE CRYSTAL FOUKTAII^. 95 

dependence is placed on such communications 
one is liable to be confirmed in error. 

The angels' visits recorded in the Bible 
were for definite and wise ends, and not to 
gratify a vain curiosity. He, whose we are, 
and whom we serve, will send an angel helper 
when such an agency is needed. The acts 
and doings of a holy soul are ordinarily de- 
termined by a deep inward conviction of what 
is right. 




96 THE CRYSTAL FOU]^TAIN. 



LII. 

Nature and Quality of Spiritual 
Influences. 

It is only by getting a glance into the spir- 
itual world, that we understand clearly our 
position in the outer world. At the present 
time, when man is becoming more developed 
in his spiritual nature, and consequently com- 
ing more in contact with spiritual existences, 
it is very important that the child of God have 
a clear understanding of his relations with the 
spirit-world. This state of spiritual develop- 
ment is like being in a new country and us- 
ing a foreign language, in the use of which 
one makes many mistakes. All finite beings, 
whether in the natural or spiritual body, have 
imperfect conceptions ; and in carrying out 
these conceptions, and tracing their results, 
are shown their errors, and are thus arriving 
at clearer views of truth. 

There are several classes or grades of spirits 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 97 

who reach man in his regenerate state. First, 
the child of God is protected measurably by 
the highest or most powerful class of spirits. 
These are guardian spirits, and not in actual 
consociation with man. Second, there are sym- 
pathetic spirits, or those on the same plane. 
Third, there are a lower class of spirits, which 
are in affinity with those persons with whom 
one associates, and from association with those 
persons, these spirits necessarily visit our 
minds. To these might be added a fourth 
class, viz., diabolical spirits. Thus, Ave per- 
ceive, that even regenerate man is exposed to 
influences from different grades of spirits, and 
hence the necessity of continual watchfulness 
and prayer. A holy person is able to sit in 
judgment on evil spirits. 




98 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



LIII. 

Conception of a Spiritual Body. 

The spiritual body, or more interior organi- 
zation of man is composed of a subtle fluid, 
stretching and contracting its particles at will 
and pleasure. In its consistency and versatility 
it may be compared to smoke or vapor, a little 
more ponderous than air, yet swiftly passing 
through it, having a quality superior to atmos- 
pheric air, which we term electricity. Elec- 
tricity is more etherial, and lighter than any 
substance which enters into the composition 
of man. And it is this which connects to- 
gether his spiritual framework, and makes it 
operative. The muscles in the external man 
correspond to this operating power. These 
contract and enlarge at the will and pleasure 
of the individual. And these spiritual mus- 
cles or fibres are the frame-work of the spirit- 
ual body, and are what holds it in consecutive 
parts, and adjusts it to a whole personality. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUKTAIN. 



99 



Electricity proceeding from the spiritual 
body is the life or motive power of the natural 
body. " It is this which sustains it ; when this 
is separated from the external man, the natu- 
ral body dies. 




100 THE CBYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



LIV. 

How DO Angels Talk with Man? 

As the wind plays on the Eolian Harp. The 
materials of the brain are the wires, which the 
Spirit, passing over, causes to vibrate. The 
wires of the Eolian Harp are governed by nat- 
ural forces — the matter of the brain by spirit- 
ual. The brain being the organ of thought, 
verbal communications must come in this way. 
The life of God, or his operating power, is 
everywhere. The revelations of God, through 
a bodily organism, or through the fibres of the 
brain, are made by the ministry of angels. 
Words are merely signs or representatives of 
thoughts. When angels communicate with 
man, they make use of the words in his mind 
to express thought. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIK. 101 



LV. 

God as One, or Dual. 

God is incomprehensible to the finite mind. 
Nature everywhere unfolds two principles, or 
evolutions from God, which we term male and 
female. We can only form an idea of God 
from his attributes, from the manifestation of 
God in Christ, and from his works and ways. 
While we cannot see God as we see man, we 
may have a perception of the Infinite, pervad- 
ing our whole being, and every object around 
us. We cannot go from the Infinite presence, 
support, and life. We see God in Christ, we 
see God in each other, measurably, according 
to our capacity of representing him. The 
highest state man can reach is a going out from 
self-limitations into divine fullness — a proceed- 
ing just as far as the soul's capacity can reach. 
Any stretch beyond this causes momentary 
suffering, and admonishes the soul of danger. 



102 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

LVI. 

The Eternal Marriage. 

What is the relation of man and woman in 
the perfected or heavenly state ? — or, is there 
an eternal marriage union of spirit with spirit, 
of which the external marriage is a type ? 

Essential or real union of man and woman 
is the original and perpetual law of God. God 
did not create either man or woman, single and 
alone, to be a receptacle of his own nature to 
the extent finite beings can represent Him. 
The difference, as far as can be expressed in 
words, between the masculine and feminine 
creation, is this : man is receptive of strength 
and power in a certain dh-ection, and woman 
in another ; and these two elements must com- 
bine to represent God. " jSTeither is the man 
without the woman, nor the woman without 
the man in the Lord ; " that is, when perfected 
or made whole, they become one being, one 
angel. This is the ordinance of God, and who 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 103 

shall question its fitness, beauty, and its per- 
petuity ? 

The external, natural marriage, is a type or 
representative of the spiritual, or more inte- 
rior and perpetual union of spirit with spirit. 
The heavenly marriage is God's marriage. " In 
heaven they neither marry, nor are given in 
marriage, but are as the angels of Grod^''' whom 
God himself unites, and not man. And whom 
God hath joined together no man can put 
asunder. 

It is important to reach the truth, the pure, 
naked principles of man's being and divine 
operation, which God has established for man's 
good, even if we must wade through such 
perversions of truth as have nearly rendered 
the truth a falsity in man's view. It is be- 
cause this state of union has been so imper- 
fectly understood and realized, that spiritual 
children, or conversions through man's agency 
are so imperfect. There is a lack in the church 
of these two combined elements of power 
through which the Spirit operates. When 
man advances to this holy state, the work of 



104 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

regeneration will assume a more jjerfect form, 
and proceed rapidly. 

Not only man, but creation in general is 
an outbirth of duality in unity. Distinct 
elements of nature, yet having a tendency to 
combine, exist not only in souls and ani- 
mated nature, but also in material substances, 
in plants and shrubs, in stones and crystals. 
Nothing in nature can fully illustrate the 
indissoluble union of twin souls, created 
counterparts of each other's nature. To the 
external eye this indivisibility may not appear, 
but in the eye of God in their spiritual struc- 
ture, they are clearly fitted, sinew to sinew, 
joint to joint, and cannot be unlaced any more 
than the nerves and fibres of the natural 
body can be severed, and the body still live. 

The reason why we are thus constituted 
lies far back in the Infinite Mind. 

The element or power which combines is 
electricity, or operating life, reproducing it- 
self and animating the life of each. This is a 
created form of life differing in specific qual- 
ities from all other forms of life. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 105 

Man's happiness centers in himself, in the 
dual form as originally created, two and one. 
When man has reached this state of union, he 
has nothing more to ask or desire ; the new 
creation is reached. 

Union with the Lord is a prerequisite to 
union with one another. The soul is first 
betrothed and wedded unto Christ, — made 
over to him forever — the selfish life giving 
place to the divine — the will of God taking 
the place of all selfish movements. Christ is 
called the " Bridegroom," and the Church, the 
'' Lamb's wife." 

These expressions, and others similar, are a 
part of the revealed will of God, having 
relation to this eternal marriage state. As 
the natural marriage is limited by God to two 
persons, and '' they twain shall be one," so 
is the spiritual; that is, two make one per- 
fected being, or anr/d. And this one angel, 
existing in two personalities, has the power 
of association and union with other two per- 
sonalities, who alike make one angel for the 
accomplishment, to any extent, of important 



106 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

purposes, or to the increase of their own hap- 
piness. 

Thus, it is apparent, that on account of 
two being made one, there is no isolation. 
Each two being a perfect whole, unites itself 
to other perfect whole beings, according to fit- 
ness, and mutual attraction, and assimilation. 
The two natures, or personalities, being com- 
bined to form one angel, perfectly united 
in thought, will, action, leave no room or 
foundation for disunion, with other person- 
alities, two and one, combining the same 
elements of being, in equal proportions, and 
to which they are mutually attracted. Thus 
the sphere of heaven is enlarged according 
to the power and capacity of the soul, or two 
souls in unity, to extend themselves, always 
preserving their own oneness, when in union 
with the oneness of other angels. Thus heaven 
may be said to exist in pairs to an indefinite 
extent. 

Souls perfected in Christ, and two natures 
conjoined so as to form a perfect channel for 
the descent of angelic life, are to be living 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 107 

representatives of the Godhead on earth. 
The Holy Sphit as a personality incarnated 
and indwelling in man, or in other words, 
Christ's essence, or fullness and completeness 
of being is found only in the union of twin 
souls — in the dual form of man and woman 
as one, in which state the all of God to be 
communicated to man may be received. 

There are at the present time but few 
angels in the external form. It is not easy to 
enlighten the church on this point. When 
angels in human form walk the earth, as 
surely they will, the work of regeneration 
will proceed rapidly. 

When the harp, as God has made it, is put 
in motion, it is God's trumpet. It becomes as 
the voice of many waters. In the union 
sphere, where two corresponding natures are 
one, there is an equal, well balanced flow of 
every good. Such are enrolled as conquerors 
over all the ravages that sin has made, separat- 
ing limb from limb and fibre from fibre of the 
inmost of man's spiritual nature. So strong 
is this sphere, that no evil spirits can reach 



108 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

such souls to injure them. The sphere of 
good is overpowering to the evil. The new 
creation is reached even to the angel hight. 

'' Behold the bridegroom cometh ! " The 
marriage feast is at hand. Let us be glad and 
rejoice and give honor unto Him, for the mar- 
riage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath 
made herself ready. And to her was granted 
that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean 
and white ; for the fine linen is the righteous- 
ness of saints. Blessed are they which are 
called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. 

" And I John saw the holy city, new 
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of 
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her 
husband, having the glory of God, and her 
light, like unto a stone most precious, clear 
as crystal. 

"And I saw no temple therein; for the 
Lord Almighty and the Lamb are the temple 
of it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and 
the Lamb is the light thereof. He which 
testifieth these things saith, Surely, I come 
quickly. Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus, 
—Rev. 22. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 109 



LVIL 

My Mother's Voice. 

Oct. 1863. Just one week from the day of 
my mother's decease, aged eighty-four years, 
— distant from me fifty miles — I awoke from 
sleep, very early in the morning, hearing her 
voice distinctly calling to me, in her own fa- 
miliar tones. Just how this sound, so natural, 
reached my interior ear, I am not able to ex- 
plain. But it made a deep impression on my 
mind ; it was a voice to be regarded. Was it 
her own voice, passing along a heavenly wire ? 
or was it some guardian angel near me, who., 
knowing the want of her spirit, had caught its 
very tone and utterance, and hastened to 
convey it to me ? 



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LVIII. 

Supremacy of Love. 

Take to thyself celestial wings, 

Go where thou pleasest, mighty Love ; 

Li thee are life's eternal springs ; 

Thou art the true, the heavenly Dove. 

If there are hidden depths below ; 

If hights and pinnacles in heaven ; 
The heavenly hights 't is thine to know. 

To thee the lowest depths are given. 

If love could bound thee, life would die ; 

If bars could bind thee, heaven would cease ; 
For heaven doth live with Love's supply, 

And life goes out with Love's release. 

Go where thou pleasest, heavenly Dove ! 

And angels, from their thrones of light. 
In depths below and heights above. 

Shall guard, but never bound thy flight. 



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LIX. 

Leaving Home.^ 

Nov. 1866. " Surely^ goodness and mercy 
shall follow thee all the days of thy life, and 
thou shalt dwell in the liouse of the Lord^ for- 
ever^^ were the words given me the very hour 
I was leaving our home ; the happy home of 
fcirty j^ears, and no longer our liome. Here 
we had received the continued manifestations 
of God's loving kindness and tender care; 
here all my husband's works were written; 
here we had fostered with loving care our 
orphans, whose society, and musical talents, 
had greatly enriched our home. No death, 
and no severe illness, had come to our house ; 
thus every room was full of happy associations, 
and not until I separated from our home, did 
I realize that if I took away my body, I could 
not at once separate my spirit. 

* See Fjrontispiecb. 



112 THE CBYSTAL FOUKTAIN. 



LX. 

Obedient unto Death. 

1867. When called of God to do some 
special work from which man naturally 
shrinks, knowing it will arouse opposition, 
how is the soul straitened until it be accom- 
plished! He who would enjoy God must 
become an obedient child in whatever work 
God gives him to do, — obedient unto death, 
the death of self. Such a special work must 
be accomplished with great deliberation, and 
in the best manner. It is then to be let alone ; 
God will take care of results, and take care of 
the instruments. Oh, how often have I expe- 
rienced this ! 

A thing may be clear in my own mind to 
be done, the impulse strong and true, and yet 
delay may be necessary in order to perfect 
the work. 

When called to pass through the deep 



THE CRYSTAL FOUKTAIN. 113 

waters of Christian experience, the hour 
which tests the life of self great is the strug- 
gle, until the resigned spirit utters the words 
of Christ, '' Thy will, O God, not mine, be 
done." 

Job sat down in sackcloth and ashes, abhor- 
ring himself Seeing an end to self, we see 
God. To be no longer self-centered, marks 
the change from the earthly to the heavenly 
state. Not until we let all go, and receive the 
'^ Great I Am " as all in all, can we grasp the 
glorious mysteries of the heavenly kingdom. 




114 THE CRYSTAL FOUNT AIK. 



LXL 

Physical Renewing. 

1869. It is a received opinion that our 
bodies are continually undergoing changes ; 
and in the ripening condition of the spirit, of 
which the external body is the clothing, may 
there not be a corresponding condition of the 
external body, and thus the perfected state of 
the blessed in heaven, be realized in God's 
time on earth ? Whatever condition is true of 
Christ may become true of those who are 
changed into his image. If " his body saw no 
corruption," must it not have been changed 
from material to immaterial substances ? John 
saw the new Jerusalem descending^ in which 
city " there shall be no more death." But 
the fearful and unbelieving cannot enter into 
the holy city. Science has done much to 
unfold the laws of life, and the spiritual life 
emanating from God will do much more. 



THE CKYSTAL FOUNT AlK. 115 

This will be the new heavens and the new 
earth — the renewing of man in hody and 
spirit. When, in the progress of years, man 
becomes so etherealized and spiritualized that 
there will be no coarse element to be put off, 
there will be no more death. Then will come 
to pass the saying, '' Death shall be swallowed 
up in victory," — consumed by the everlast- 
ing life emanating from God, and permeating 
the whole man. Enoch walked with God 
three hundred years, and knew no death. 




116 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIK. 



LXIL 

Sin and Sickness. 

Oh, when shall sickness and disease, 
Their persecuting warfare cease ; 
And weakness die, and grief, and pain. 
And death, itself, at last be slain ? 

Doubt not, that better day is near. 
The suffering sons of earth to cheer ; 
Disease and pain are born of sin ; 
Their remedy is found within. 

Let Christ, descending from above. 
Become incarnate in thy love ; 
And inward ills and wrongs subdue. 
And make thy fallen nature new ; 

Let the great Healer make thee free 
From sin's corroding malady ; 
And then the Life that 's in the soul, 
Shall make the suffering body whole ! 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. Ill 



LXIII. 

Christ in Me. 

Feb. 1869. Have enjoyed several inter- 
views of late with one who seems to have a 
clear apprehension of the death of self, and of 
the Christ-life as taking the place of self. 
And I am led to inquire, am /willing to let 
go all selfish considerations, and know only- 
Christ ? Am I willing to let the Christ speak 
and act in me, and thus regard not my former 
self, acting from a regard to selfish aims, but 
the Christ-spirit in me? Since in each ad- 
vancing stage of progress, we acknowledge 
only the grace of God, why not be willing to 
judge thus of myself, as of another person? 
And why may I not say with Paul, '' I live 
not, but Christ liveth in me. And the life 
that I live in the flesh, I live by the faith of 
the Son of God?" — the faith which Christ 
exercised in the Father being my faith. 



118 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

This state, says the inner voice, I must 
reach, if I would advance from my present 
position. I must noAv take Christ wholly as 
my life, or stand still where I am. I have 
come to an end of progress regarding myself. 

And may I reckon the states of the selfish 
life as past ? 

Past ! past ! past ! is the spirit's echo. 

The little child Jesus, both little and great, 
will never be uncared for by the holy angels 
who watched over the infant Jesus from his 
birth to his ascension. 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 119 

LXIV. 

Christ and Love. 

We live: but not a life of earth; 
We live : but 't is angelic birth ; 

'T is Christ that makes us whole ; 
But Christ below and Christ above, 
Where shall we find him but in love, 

Love living in the soul? 

"I live," the great Apostle said; 
^'And yet not I," myself am dead. 

And yet 't was not less true. 
That, dead to self, he lived again 
The life that on the Cross was slain. 

The life forever new. 

That life was Christ, with Christ's great powers; 
The Christ was his ; the Christ is ours ; 

The Christ in Love that's known. 
Our earthly life, like Paul's, is dead ; 
The Christ of love doth in its stead 

Erect his inward throne. 



120 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



LXV. 

Ocean Teaching. 

1869. Saw in vision last night, the broad, 
broad ocean, and walked upon the waters, 
untroubled, unharmed. And the word of the 
Lord which came to me this morning, as I 
awoke, was this, — " Arise, shake off the 
fetters of earth-bound nature ; soar to the 
Infinite, and dwell in God. Pass through 
and above the waters, walking on the sea, 
inhahng the pure atmosphere of heaven, 
though encompassed with the damp fogs of 
earth. The world within ennobles and en- 
riches the world without ; subdues and over- 
comes it." 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 121 



LXVI. 

The Calmer of the Storm. 

Christ ! I often think of thee 
Upon the waves of Galilee ; 

1 hear the voice, I see the form, 

Which ruled the waves, which Calmed the 
storm. 

That voice of power, which calmed the seas, 
Predicted " greater things than these ; " 
Those greater things to-day are seen. 
In this, that thou dost rule within. 

To those who have the sight to see. 
There is an inward Galilee ; 
And it doth fit thee now to bind 
The waves and tempests of the mind. 

Thou walkest now within the soul, 
Thou bid'st its billows cease to roll ; 
The waves of stormy strife are still, 
And pride and wrath obey thy will. 



122 THE CBYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



LXVIL 

The Visible and the Invisible. 

1870. '' The invisible things of God,"— 
spiritual truths and operations, — are " clearly 
understood by the things that are made," 
— '' even" proceeding towards a knowledge of 
"his eternal power and Godhead." 

The work of regeneration has its analogy 
in the natural birth. In the advancing stages 
of the inner life, the holy conception takes 
place, and, in due time, the birth of the holy 
child; that is, the truth of these advancing 
stages of progress struggles from the interior 
to an outward development. 

Thus we perceive that the highest state of 
grace of which vve can form a conception 
has its analogy in the outer or natural world. 
The words conception, birth, union, have a 
spiritual significancy. The operations of the 
Spirit in these various ways are perceived, 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 123 

known, realized in the progressive stages of 
development ; even, until we come to under- 
stand something of the nature of God himself 
— something of " his eternal power and God- 
head," — as we are being new created in his 
image. 

We know but little of God, except by an 
experimental knowledge of the states of 
Christ. 




124 THE CRYSTAL rOXJin?AIN. 



LXVIII. 

Two Kinds of Mediumship. 

There are two kinds of mediumship, — the 
divine of God, and the intellectual of man. 
The divine is in the order of God, and comes 
through the subjection of the mind and will 
of man to God, in the use and exercise of the 
voluntary powers of the mind. Physical or 
intellectual mediumship is yielding to another 
the control of one's physical and mental or- 
ganization, which is not in divine order, and 
is used by spirits not wholly subject to God. 
The laws of spirit action are eternal, having 
their foundation in the structure of the soul. 
The man of science, who unfolds the laws of 
spirit action and communication as having 
their foundation in the laws and prmciples of 
man's original being, will do much for the 
church, in establishing a scientific basis for 
the ministry of the angels. 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 125 

That the soul by its internal, God-given 
powers may hear the voice of God, and of 
spirits, and angels, is a fact fully established 
by holy prophets and apostles. And no 
doubt, also, by the inner perception of holy 
men and women in all ages of the world ; for 
God has never forsaken his earth-born chil- 
dren. Adam heard the voice of God ; Christ, 
the second Adam, heard the voice of God. 
Thus did Abraham, and Isaac, and all the 
holy prophets and apostles. 

The first angel visit on record was to poor 
Hagar. — Gen. 21. What a lesson does this 
read to us ! Are we less the children of God 
than was Hagar? The law was given to 
Moses by the ministration of angels. The 
angel Gabriel announces the new dispensa- 
tion. Angels ministered unto Christ in the 
wilderness, and in the garden of Gethsemane. 
Moses and Elias, the saints of a former age, 
talked with him on the mount; nor can we 
doubt he often held communion with the 
holy angels, and spirits of just men made 
perfect. 



126 THE CRYSTAL FOXTXTAIN. 

The risen Christ appeared to the disciples, 
and talked Avith them. He talked with Mary 
at the sepulchre. He spake to Saul, saying, 
'' I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest." And 
to Ananias, in a vision. 

Angels met the women at the sepulchre ; 
released the apostles from prison. The reve- 
lations made to John were given by an angel. 
And this book clearly teaches that the angels 
have a great work to accomplish on the earth. 
The Bible testimony is as direct on the minis- 
try and agency of angels, as on any other sub- 
ject. And it often appears that the voice of 
God and the voice of his holy angel are one 
and the same. 

Is not this the era^ still more manifestly 
than at any previous time, of the coming of 
the Lord, with his angels, to separate the 
chaff, and gather the wheat into the garner of 
the Lord ? 

When the kingdoms of this world shall 
become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, heaven and earth will be one. 

The believer in Christ, united to him in 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 127 



spirit, knows now something of this incoming 
kingdom, and will know much more as union 
with Christ is perfected. "In him dwelleth 
all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily." 
Where are the limitations of progress in union 
with Christ? 

" Hereafter shall ye see heaven open, and 
the angels of God ascending and descending 
upon the Son of man." — John 1 : 51. 

Not the external opening of the clouds 
above our heads, but the internal opening of 
the kingdom of God within the soul. Heaven 
has no measurement of time and space, for 
God is everywhere. Heaven may be reached 
in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, or on 
any spot of the universe, however remote 
from our little planet. How great is God, 
and how limited is man in his natural, first- 
born state ! But new created in Christ Jesus, 
man has a spirit capable of vast extension, 
and may know, Avhile in the natural body, 
something of the freedom and outlook of the 
holy angels. 

Angels have power to become visible or in- 



128 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

visible, after the manner of Christ's appearing 
and disappearing to the disciples after his 
resurrection. Communion of spirit with spirit, 
present, or absent in body, taking our stand- 
point in Christ, is not a matter of doubt, but 
of certainty. Great are the powers and capac- 
ities to be unfolded from man's interior, spir- 
itual being, in union with Christ. When true 
Spiritualism has done its work, that Spiritual- 
ism of which Christ is the Living Head, then 
the heavens Vvdll be opened in man, and we 
shall see or realize the angels of God ascend- 
ing and descending on the sons and daughters 
of our planet. Earth. Man will become the 
temple of God, as says the voice in Revela- 
tion. — Rev. 21. 

He has built his throne in the heavens, — 
in the heavens of man's spirit. 

The internal, spiritual, heavenly view some- 
times overpowers the natural senses, and they 
are silenced, or put to sleep ; as when the 
angel appeared to Daniel, he fell into a deep 
sleep. And when Christ appeared to John of 
the Apocalypse, he fell at his feet as one 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 129 

dead. Spiritual things at such times become 
more real than natural tilings. And when 
the truth of spiritual things is made clear to 
the eye and ear of our understanding, earthly- 
things will seem as the shadows, and spiritual 
things the substance. This earth, beautiful 
as it is, is but the outline and framework of 
the new heavens and the new earth, yet to be 
discerned by the spiritual eye of man, — and 
this view flowing out from his interior, holy 
nature. No wonder there is so much rejoic- 
ing in the book of Revelation, that the hour 
of God's judgment is come, — the judgment 
aud condemnation of all sin, as preparatory to 
the reign of righteousness on the earth. 

" Alleluia ! Salvation, and glory, and honor, 
and power, unto the Lord our God, for true 
and righteous are his judgments^ 




130 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

LXIX. 

The Perfect Revelation. 

1870. The revelation made by Christ is 
the only perfect revelation of God's will man- 
ifested through a human personality on earth. 
The great moral law announced to Moses 
with so much preparation and grandeur, 
stands pre-eminently the law of God to all 
his creatures. Christ was the perfect exem- 
plification of this law in all his sayings and 
doings. These are the two specific and un- 
answerable revelations to man, subject to no 
criticisms, but commanding a whole-hearted 
assent. All inspirational writings being re- 
ceived through imperfect mediums, bear more 
or less of the stamp or coloring of man's im- 
perfect views, and must be interpreted from 
these two standpoints ; viz., the moral law, 
and the perfect revelation through our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

The great revelation to us, as individuals, 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 131 

that which surpasses all other revelations, — 
being in accordance with the revelation made 
by Christ, — is the internal revelation or man- 
ifestation in us of the Christ-nature or spirit ; 
Christ incarnate in us. John seems to have 
had a clear knowledge of this life of God in 
us. See his Epistles. 

" God hath given to us eternal life^ and this 
life is in hi^ Son — he that hath the Son hath 
lifer 

In all ages of the world, there have been 
set times, or marked periods of progress, by- 
means of a clearer understanding of some 
truth, hitherto only obscurely apprehended. 

And this is especially the day of the mani- 
festation, by a multitude of witnesses and ex- 
perimental writers, of this great truth, which 
comprehends all other truths in its issues, 
viz, Christ in the soul, Christ in us. The 
Church has received his first coming, as the 
son of Mary, and the Son of God, but are 
stumbling over his second coming, looking 
everywhere but within to find the living, 
operating Christ. 



132 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 

The Christ-spirit, essence, and life must be 
incarnated in us, must flow through our 
sinews and veins, must move our hands and 
feet, and thi^s be manifested to the world. 

This is the bread of heaven given us to-day, 
" Christ in us ; " and he who does not feast 
his soul on this manna, will famish. ''Except 
ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink 
his blood, ye have no life in you." Yes, the 
eternal Spirit of Life, — life, immortal, undj^- 
ing, — must be incarnated in us. It is thus 
the glory of the Incarnation extends itself ; 
it is thus the fullness of the prophecy con- 
cerning Christ's kingdom on earth is realized ; 
it is thus the fullness of the promises in rela- 
tion to us as individual believers in Christ is 
realized. And it is thus, hy means of this 
manifestation, that the tvorlcL will see and 
believe. " And the Gentiles shall come to thy 
light, and kings to the brightness of thy ris- 
ing." Who will look for the babe of Bethle- 
hem, and for the fullness of the stature of the 
man Christ Jesus, in himself? 



THE CBYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 133 



LXX. 

More of God and Less of Self. 

Jan. 1870. In my inner being I perceive 
more of God, and less of self, as an obstruc- 
tion to the free, boundless operations of the 
blessed Spirit, in its holy, wise inflowing into 
my inmost being. The anxieties and striv- 
ings which an undue self-love imposes, seem 
to be in some degree removed. God is be- 
come to me more and more the centre and 
circumference, the alpha and omega, the all in 
all. Never did I realize so clearly that the 
Christ-life may take the place of the Adamic 
life, and that the finite may so take hold of 
the infinite, as to lose, measurably, the grasp 
of itself. I see no limit to the progress of the 
soul in the life of God. 



134 THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 



LXXI. 

Death of my Husband. 

Sabbath morning^ March 10, 1872, as my 
husband was rising from his bed, he suddenly- 
fell back, being stricken with paralysis, ren- 
dering him helpless, speechless, and uncon- 
scious until the Friday following, when there 
was a return of consciousness, and with this 
a heavenly expression on his countenance, as 
if his soul was triumphant over all the ills of 
the body. I read to him, from day to day. 
select portions of Scripture, to which he lis- 
tened with great delight, as he lay quietly on 
his bed ; and he suffered very little from dis- 
quieting pains. There was at times a smile on 
his face, and varying expression, as if he was 
talldng with the angels, — a soft, cheerful, 
satisfied expression, giving great delight to 
those who witnessed it. He recognized the 
fiiends who visited him, but was unable to 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIK. 135 

converse, except by smiles, and motions of his 
head. Never was his smile so pleasant, and 
his bow so gracious, this being the only lan- 
guage he could use. 

On Monday following, a week from the 
time of this attack, he was able to extend to 
me his paralyzed arm ; and taking my hand in 
his, and with his other hand pressing mine, he 
gave to me his usual affectionate greeting. 

On Thursday night following, March 21, 
perceiving an unusual restlessness had come 
over him, accompanied with stirring emotions, 
and thinking that the hour of his death was 
approaching, I said to him, '' The angels are 
coming ? " repeating the expression several 
times. With labored utterance, and fullness 
of emotion, he said, '' My soul is with God." 
This is the first, and the last, and the only 
sentence uttered by him, distinctly understood 
by me^ during his illness. 

He died Tuesday following, 6 o'clock, a. m., 
April 2d ; or, rather, this was the hour of his 
ascension. 

Just before his form became lifeless, he 



136 THE CRYSTAL FOUNT AIIST. 

looked upwards with great expression ; it was 
a look of ascent, glorious to behold, such as I 
never before witnessed, and cannot describe, 
I realized some angel presence infilling his 
being, and giving wings to his spirit, in the 
hour of its separation from the body. 

I recognized not only the continued mani- 
festations of God's love during his illness, but 
a special manifestation when he uttered these 
words, '' My soul is with God," and at the 
time of his spirit's release from the body. 
His age was seventy-three years. 




m^ 



THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 137 



LXXIL 

Death to Self and Life in God. 



"He that is joined to the Lord, is one spirit." — i Cor., vi: 17. 



Oh, sacred union with the Perfect Mind ! 
Transcendent bliss, which Thou alone canst 
give; 
How blest are they, this pearl of price who 
find, 
And dead to earth, have learnt in thee to 
live. 

Thus in thine arms of love, O God, I lie, 
Lost, and forever lost, to all bat thee ; 

My happy soul, since it hath learned to die, 
Hath found new life in thine Infinity. 

Oh, go and learn this lesson of the Cross, 
And tread the way which saints and proph- 
ets trod. 



138 



THE CBYSTAL FOXJNTArN'. 



Who, counting life and self and all things 
loss, 
Have found in inward death the life of 
God. 




THE CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN. 139 



LXXIIL 

Note in Conclusion. 

Jan. 1870, is the last record in my Note- 
Book. I will only add, subsequent experi- 
ences confirm the truths here written. New 
trials have awaited me, and especially the 
death of my husband, in April, 1872 ; and 
new supplies of grace have been given me. 
Suffering of various kinds may be experienced 
to a great depth, but there remains a greater 
depth, which takes hold on God, and keeps 
the soul steady. More and more, my internal 
states and outward circumstances seem to me 
ordered of God. And with this clearer light 
and knowledge of God, as present in all 
things, self is silenced. All is of God. There 
is something greater, and, may I not say, 
more tangible, than the selfhood of man. 



140 THE CKYSTAL FOUNTArN'. 

'' I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and 
the ending, saith the Lord ; which is, and 
which was, and which is to come, the Al- 
mighty." 

P. L. Upham. 
New York, 1876, 







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